Henri Thomas Zerner - Curriculum Vitae#

Professor of History of Art and Architecture
French Renaissance and Modern
Ph.D. University of Paris

Henri Zerneris the author, most recently, of Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism and Écrire l’histoire de l’art: Figures d’une discipline. (January 2005)

EDUCATION

• 1957 Baccalauréat (Section A' Philosophie), Paris
  
• 1957-58 Junior at Columbia College, New York
  
• 1961 Licence ès Lettres (English), University of Paris
  
• 1963 Diplôme de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - 4e Section (Thesis on Etienne Dupérac in Italy)
  
• 1969 Doctorat du 3e Cycle (thesis on the Etchers of the School of Fontainebleau), Université de Paris
  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 1973 - present Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University
  
• 1973 - 1988 Curator of Prints, Fogg Art Museum
  
• 1972 - 1973 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University
  
• 1970 - 1973 Associate Professor, Brown University
  
• 1966-70 Assistant Professor, Brown University
  
• 1966 Guest Curator of Prints and Drawings, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
  
• 1965 - 1966 Acting Curator of Painting and Graphic Arts, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I.
  
• 1988 Series of eight lectures at the College de France, in Paris
  
• 1995 Fall Guest Professor of Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris
  

EXHIBITIONS (selection)

• 1966 Prints and Drawings
  
• 1968 James Jacques Joseph Tissot, 1836-1902 : a retrospective exhibition /​ introductory essay and drawing entries by Henri Zerner ; chronology and painting entries by David S. Brooke; print section by Michael Wentworth. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, February 28-March 29, 1968 ; and at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, April 6-May 5, 1968.
  
• 1972 L'école De Fontainebleau. Grand Palais 17 Octobre 1972-15 Janvier 1973., Editions Des Musées Nationaux. - *1972 On the organization committee, in charge of print sections (about 160 items) pp.245-335 of the catalogue
  
• 1994 The French Renaissance in Prints, UCLA Hammer Museum, New York Metropolitan Museum, and Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France, Oct. 1994 - July 1995 (Coorganizer and part author of catalogue)
  

EDITORIAL BOARD

• The Print Quarterly
  
• Revue de l'Art (until 1990)
  
• Art Bulletin Dates

TRUSTEE

• The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
  
• Member of the Conseil scientifique du Louvre since 2011
  

MEMBERSHIPS:

• Comité Francais d'Histoire de l'Art
  
• Société d'Histoire de l'Art Francais
  
• I.C.O.M.
  
• College Art Association
  
• Print Council of America
  
• Officier dans l’Ordre des arts et lettres